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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy found guilty of corruption

The ex-head of state was  found guilty of seeking to bribe a judge and handed a three-year sentence, two of them suspended.

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Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to three years in prison, two suspended, for seeking to bribe a judge in a huge blow to the former French president, who faces a string of corruption cases, reports The Telegraph.

The conservative 66-year-old is the first French president since France’s collaborationist leader Marshall Philippe Pétain to be handed a prison term.

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